Friday, November 19, 2010

Xymon 4.3.0 beta-3 available

There are plenty of improvements since previous release (and even from beta2), so upgrade could be tricky, but it worth it.

From Release Notes:

Xymon 4.3.0 is the first release with new features after
the 4.2.0 release. Several large changes have been made
throughout the entire codebase. Some highlights (see
the Changes file for a longer list):
* Data going into graphs can now be used to alter a status,
e.g. to trigger an alert from the response time of a network
service.
* Tasks in xymonlaunch can be be configured to run at specific
time of day using a cron-style syntax for when they must run.
* Worker modules (RRD, client-data parsers etc) can operate on
remote hosts from the xymond daemon, for load-sharing.
* Support for defining holidays as non-working days in alerts and
SLA calculations.
* Hosts which appear on multiple pages in the web display can
use any page they are on in the alerting rules and elsewhere.
* Various new network tests: SOAP-over-HTTP, HTTP tests with
session cookies, SSL minimum encryption strength test.
* New "compact" status display can group multiple statuses into
one on the webpage display.
* Configurable periods for graphs on the trends page.
* RRD files can be configured to maintain more data and/or
different data (e.g. MAX/MIN values)
* SLA calculations now include the number of outages in addition
to the down-time.

Several minor issues with beta3 are already addressed in svn repository and in posts on the mailing list, but generally it works very stable ( I've tested it on FreeBSD and Opensolaris platforms)